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Three ZHA projects are winners at the BLT Built Design Awards 2024

Three projects by Zaha Hadid Architects have been named winners at the BLT Built Design Awards 2024; Masarycka for ‘Commercial’ Winner. Jiangxi River Bridge for ‘Bridges and Public infrastructure’ Winner and ‘Bridges and Public infrastructure’ Jury’s Favourite. Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre for ‘Cultural’ Winner and ‘Cultural’ Jury’s Favourite.

The BLT Built Design Awards encompasses all forms of buildings, projects, and infrastructure that cope with the challenges of today’s urbanization. This annual program aims to celebrate projects, people, and their passion for the industry.

Integrating Czech Railways’ modernisation and historic railway station, Masaryčka’s design defines the gateway to the city’s new public plazas and terraces establishing a dialogue with the urbanism of Prague’s Old Town, known as ‘the city of 100 spires’. Achieving LEED Platinum certification and meeting RIBA 2025 targets for embodied & operational carbon, its design incorporates roof gardens, a triple-insulated façade for optimal natural light, photovoltaics harvesting renewable energy and natural ventilation supported by smart management systems to reduce energy consumption.

With its 185-metre central span and 55-metre secondary spans reaching to the riverbanks, the Jiangxi River Bridge is a road, cycle and pedestrian bridge over the meandering Jiangxi River; enabling the West Line Road to become the western section of the Airport New Town ring-road and cycle route. As arches provide the most efficient bridge structure for spans between 120-250 meters, the bridge’s steel arches lean together touching at their crown, stabilising the structure while its supporting piers taper into its arches and road deck.

Designed as a creative hub within one of the world’s most dynamic regions, the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre is at the heart of Zhuhai’s Jinwan district. Integrating three distinct cultural institutions for the city (a Performing Arts Centre with a 1200-seat Grand Theatre and a 500-seat Black Box theatre; a Science Centre; and an Art Museum) each venue within the centre incorporates unique characteristics, yet all are united by formal and structural logic. Echoing the wing structures of the many migratory birds species that fly in formation over southern China, the latticed steel canopies sheltering each venue are configured through repetition, symmetry and scale variation.